Author: Audrey Le Lièvre
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571280811
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Born in 1858 to a wealthy family Ellen Willmott owned three gardens, in England, France and Italy, and employed one hundred and four gardeners. She mixed with royalty and her name was associated with the greatest gardeners of her time, Gertrude Jekyll, William Robinson and E. A. Bowles. In 1894 she joined the Royal Horticultural Society and in 1897 she was one of the first sixty recipients (and one of only two women) to receive the Victoria medal of honour. Warley Garden in Spring and Summer, a book of photographs, was published in 1909 and in 1912 she published The Genus Rosa. In the same year she was awarded the grande médaille Geoffroi St Hilaire from the Société d'Acclimatation de France and in 1924 received the Dean Hole medal from the National Rose Society. An acknowledged and admired expert in her field Ellen Willmott died in 1934 aged 76, alone and nearly bankrupt. First published in 1980 this carefully researched biography is a fascinating account of a woman who was infamous in her time and whose mark can still be seen on the horticultural world today. Miss Willmott of Warley Place is republished to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of Ellen Willmott's birth.
Miss Willmott of Warley Place
Author: Audrey Le Lièvre
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571280811
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Born in 1858 to a wealthy family Ellen Willmott owned three gardens, in England, France and Italy, and employed one hundred and four gardeners. She mixed with royalty and her name was associated with the greatest gardeners of her time, Gertrude Jekyll, William Robinson and E. A. Bowles. In 1894 she joined the Royal Horticultural Society and in 1897 she was one of the first sixty recipients (and one of only two women) to receive the Victoria medal of honour. Warley Garden in Spring and Summer, a book of photographs, was published in 1909 and in 1912 she published The Genus Rosa. In the same year she was awarded the grande médaille Geoffroi St Hilaire from the Société d'Acclimatation de France and in 1924 received the Dean Hole medal from the National Rose Society. An acknowledged and admired expert in her field Ellen Willmott died in 1934 aged 76, alone and nearly bankrupt. First published in 1980 this carefully researched biography is a fascinating account of a woman who was infamous in her time and whose mark can still be seen on the horticultural world today. Miss Willmott of Warley Place is republished to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of Ellen Willmott's birth.
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571280811
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Born in 1858 to a wealthy family Ellen Willmott owned three gardens, in England, France and Italy, and employed one hundred and four gardeners. She mixed with royalty and her name was associated with the greatest gardeners of her time, Gertrude Jekyll, William Robinson and E. A. Bowles. In 1894 she joined the Royal Horticultural Society and in 1897 she was one of the first sixty recipients (and one of only two women) to receive the Victoria medal of honour. Warley Garden in Spring and Summer, a book of photographs, was published in 1909 and in 1912 she published The Genus Rosa. In the same year she was awarded the grande médaille Geoffroi St Hilaire from the Société d'Acclimatation de France and in 1924 received the Dean Hole medal from the National Rose Society. An acknowledged and admired expert in her field Ellen Willmott died in 1934 aged 76, alone and nearly bankrupt. First published in 1980 this carefully researched biography is a fascinating account of a woman who was infamous in her time and whose mark can still be seen on the horticultural world today. Miss Willmott of Warley Place is republished to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of Ellen Willmott's birth.
The Book of the Daffodil
Author: Stephen Eugene Bourne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Daffodil
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Daffodil
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Gardening Women
Author: Catherine Horwood
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0748118330
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
From Flora, Roman goddess of plants, to today's gardeners at Kew, women have always gardened. Women gardeners have grown vegetables for their kitchens and herbs for their medicine cupboards. They have been footnotes in the horticultural annals for specimens collected abroad. They taught young women about gardening twenty-five years before women's horticultural schools officially existed. And their influence on the style of our gardens, frequently unacknowledged, survives to the present day. From these triumphs to the battles fought against male-dominated institutions, from the horticultural pioneers to the bringers of change in society's attitudes, this book is a celebration of the best of the species -- gardening women.
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0748118330
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
From Flora, Roman goddess of plants, to today's gardeners at Kew, women have always gardened. Women gardeners have grown vegetables for their kitchens and herbs for their medicine cupboards. They have been footnotes in the horticultural annals for specimens collected abroad. They taught young women about gardening twenty-five years before women's horticultural schools officially existed. And their influence on the style of our gardens, frequently unacknowledged, survives to the present day. From these triumphs to the battles fought against male-dominated institutions, from the horticultural pioneers to the bringers of change in society's attitudes, this book is a celebration of the best of the species -- gardening women.
The British Woodlice
Author: Wilfred Mark Webb
Publisher:
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Category : Crustacea
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crustacea
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
My Garden in Summer
Author: Edward Augustus Bowles
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Floriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Floriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Ingatestone and the Essex Great Road with Fryerning
Author: E. E. Wilde
Publisher:
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Category : Essex (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Essex (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
English Goldsmiths and Their Marks
Author: Sir Charles James Jackson
Publisher:
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Category : Goldsmiths
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Goldsmiths
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
A Handbook of Garden Irises
Author: William Rickatson Dykes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iris (Plant)
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iris (Plant)
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland
Author: Henry John Elwes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108069320
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
This well-illustrated seven-volume work (1906-13) covers the varieties, distribution, history and cultivation of tree species in the British Isles.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108069320
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
This well-illustrated seven-volume work (1906-13) covers the varieties, distribution, history and cultivation of tree species in the British Isles.
My Garden in Spring
Author: Edward Augustus Bowles
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Floriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Floriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description